Writing the Mughal world
Subtitle: studies on culture and politics
By: Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Contributors: Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780231158107; 9780231158114; 9780231527903
Subjects: Historiography; Politics and culture; History; Politics and government; Commerce
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Letters from a sinking sultan; title: TheMughals look beyond the winds; title: On the end of the Akbari dispensation; title: The Deccan frontier and Mughal expansion, c. 1600; title: Faizi's Nal-Daman and its long afterlife; title: Catholics and Muslims in the court of Jahangir (1608-1611); title: The making of a Munshi; title: Trade and politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700-1732); title: Eighteenth-century historiography and the world of the Mughal Munshi; title: The political thought of a late eighteenth-century Mughal prince.